Now I know why I didn't see you at the gondi!
Things are going fast here. Warmed up on the North Ridge, went over to Snowdon/Bunny Buster for a few laps, then hit Cascade. I thought about Bear Mountain, but the Walk Required signs at the top of Bear Claw put me off, so I headed down to the Skyeship gondi. Had to inch my way through narrow strips of brown snow on several trails like Cruise Control and Panic Button/Needle's Eye. Even Cascade and Downdraft had a pretty narrow exit although the tops of the trails had some good soft spring snow. Cruised down Skyelark/Bittersweet to Superstar lift. Superstar was pretty bumped up by the time I hit it on my next to last run, but the snow was great.
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I went to Killington with my 6-year-old son yesterday (did a day trip from Binghamton, 9h of driving total). We did 3 laps: one on the Snowdon six, one on the gondola, one on the Superstar quad. Then rode the gondola up, ate lunch at the Peak lodge, and rode the gondola down (he said he was too tired to ski down, which was perfectly fine with me).
We normally ski at Greek Peak, and the vertical drop of our usual lift is around 700', while here the vertical drops are, respectively, about 1,100', 1,200', and 1,650', so three laps at Killington are more like 7 laps at our home hill. The coverage was OK: Bunny Buster was very narrow at times; most other runs were good but slushy, which is expected at this time of year. Most importantly, though, my son didn't complain at all even though the conditions were challenging at times; quite the opposite, he absolutely loved Killington, especially riding the gondola (it was his first time at a "big" ski area), and he definitely wants to come back again.
